Our Biography

EDUCATION

• 2006–2012 – PhD Studies – Faculty of History, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Title of doctoral dissertation: Contemporary Genealogy of Polish Jews (supervisor: Dr Leszek Hondo)
• 2007 – Holocaust Teaching Summer School – European Studies Institute at Jagiellonian University and the International Center for Teaching about Auschwitz and the Holocaust
• 2001–2002 – Lodz University, Faculty of Educational Science, Postgraduate Specialization Course, Upbringing by the Arts
• 1995–2000 – M.A. in Ethnology – Lodz University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, the Ethnology Department, Title of master thesis: The Jewish cemetery in Zduńska Wola (Supervisors: Prof. Olga Goldberg – Mulkiewicz from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and Prof. Ewa Grazyna Karpinska from Lodz University, Poland)
• 1988–1993 – High School of Fine Arts in Zdunska Wola

CURRENT ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

• Jewish genealogy (focused on the contemporary Jewish genealogy, Jewish genealogical community, Landsmannschafts)
• Ethnography of Polish Jews
• Jewish cemeteries in Poland
• Polish-Jewish relations from past to present (focused on Poles preserving Jewish heritage in Poland)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE at the Jagiellonian University

• 2006/2007 – History of Judaism
• 2006/2007; 2007/2008 – Judaism in Poland (Jewish holidays)
• 2008/2009 – History of Judaism from the Middle Ages until the Present

TEACHING EXPERIENCES at the Pedagogical University in Kraków

• 2014 – two courses: Cultural anthropology, Modern philosophy and ethics

PUBLICATIONS

In English:

• Klauzińska K. (2018), „Family Registration Cards: An Overlooked Genealogical Resource”, in: Avotaynu, Winter 2018, vol. XXXIV, p. 25-27
• Klauzińska K. (2018), „Zduńska Wola is not the town without Jews!”, in: Haynt, Australian Society of Polish Jews and their Descendants, Winter 2018, issue 3, p. 9-11
• Klauzińska K. (2013), „A Practical Introduction to Dataset Merging”, in: Selected Lectures On Genealogy. An Introduction To Scientific Tools, Weizmann Institute, Israel, editor: Daniel Wagner, p. 83-98
• Klauzinska K. (2011), „My first genealogy conference – reflections on 29th IAJGS conference”, in: Chronicles, Spring 2011, vol. 28-1, Philadelphia, p.12-14 Read it online
• Klauzinska K. (2009), „Coloured Tombstones at the Jewish Cemetery in Zdunska Wola”, in: Ars Judaica (Bar Ilan University, Israel), vol. 5, p. 121-128 Read it online
• Klauzinska K. (2007), „A Modern Approach to the Genealogy of Polish Jews: Zdunska Wola as a Test Case”, in: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, vol. 5, p. 41-53
• Wagner H.D., Klauzinska K. (2006), „Contemporary Jewish Genealogy”, in: Studia Judaica, vol. 2(18), p. 349-365 Read it online
• Wagner H.D, Klauzinska K. (2004), „Polychromatic Tombstones in Polish Jewish Cemeteries”, In: Avotaynu, vol. XX Nr 2, p. 38-40

In Polish

• Klauzińska K. (2015), Landsmanszaft – na marginesie badań nad żydowską społecznością genealogiczną [w:] W krainie metarefleksji. Księga poświęcona Profesorowi Czesławowi Robotyckiemu. Kraków, s. 464-482
• Klauzińska K. (2011), „Księgi ludności stałej, jako źródło do badań nad Żydami sosnowieckimi”, In: Żydzi na Górnym Śląsku i w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim. Historia. Kultura. Zagadnienia konserwatorskie, Kraków, s. 67-74
• Klauzinska K. (2009), „Ogólnopolska Konferencja YACHAD, czyli nasz sposób na budowanie relacji polsko – żydowskich”, In: Regionalizm w Szkolnej Edukacji. Wielokulturowość Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego, Editors: Dariusz Rozmus, Sławomir Witkowski, Dabrowa Górnicza - Będzin, s. 33-37
• Klauzinska K. (2004), „The Jewish cemetery in Zduńska Wola in the light of the latest research”, In: Wędrownik, vol. II (380)
• Klauzinska K. (2003), „The town of Asher Ud-Sieradzki”, In: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne, vol. 8, October, p. 181-199

e-articles:

• Klauzińska K., „Tym, którzy oczekiwali aromatów Szabatu”, e-article (access on April12, 2011) Read it online

A series of articles written to The Museum of The History of Polish Jews (Virtual Shtetl Project): www.sztetl.org.pl [written between April 2008 – June 2009]:

• The history of the Jews of Łódź
• The history of the Jews of Brzeziny
• The history of the Jews of Zduńska Wola
• The history of the Jews of Łask
• The history of the Jews of Sieradz
• The history of the Jews of Szadek
• The history of the Jews of Pabianice
• The history of the Jews of Warta
• The history of the Jews of Wieluń
• The history of the Jews of Bełchatow
• The history of the Jews of Piotrków Trybunalski
• The history of the Jews of Lututów
• The history of the Jews of Zgierz
• The history of the Jews of Złoczew

CONFERENCES / LECTURES

• Utrecht University 2018, Walking among Colors in Polish Cemeteries (together with prof. Daniel Wagner)
• Warsaw 2018, 38th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, two presentations: Memory Keepers of Poland's Jewish Past (together with Dr. Menachem Daum) and Family Registration Cards (FRC): An Overlooked Genealogical Resource.
• Rehovot 2018, Genealogy and the Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Warsaw, Łódź, Zduńska Wola 2017, POLIN Meeting Point – Summer Education School 3rd edition, When memory ceases to be omnipresent, it ceases to be present at all.
• Jerusalem 2015, 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy: Beyond the graves - the dual lives of Jewish cemeteries of Poland.
• Jerusalem 2013, Christ Church Jerusalem, Preserving the Memory: Gentiles Caring for Jewish Cemeteries in Poland
• Zduńska Wola 2013, Museum of the History of Zdunska Wola, Jewish Ghetto of Zduńskiej Woli
• Łódź 2013, Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense, presentation for the students of Hillels of Greater Baltimor, organized by the Polish Press Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
• Kraków 2012, The Center of Holocaust Studies at Jagiellonian University, lecture and presentation for The Students' Science Circle: „Genealogy has no one sense: Jewish genealogical community after the Holocaust”
• Jerusalem 2012, lecture and presentation: (co-author with Dr Carrie Burns, Dr Menachem Daum), 8Th International Conference on Holocaust, Institute Yad Vashem, „Reunion: How a Holocaust Survivor Brought Together A Pole, an Orthodox Jew and an Evangelical Christian and What the Community Learned as a Result”
• Champaign Urbana, University of Illinois 2011, USA, lectures: „The emergence of a multi-cultural town in Central Poland: Zdunska Wola (1825-1942)” and „Remembering the Jewish community of Zduńska Wola: Contemporary activities (2001-2009)”
• Krakow, Jewish Festival 2011, lecture: „The Role of Woman in Jewish Genealogy”.
• Sosnowiec 2010, Z dziejów Żydów w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim i na Górnym Śląsku. Historia – kultura – zagadnienia konserwatorskie lecture: „Księgi ludności stałej, jako źródło do badań nad Żydami sosnowieckimi (Books of Permanent Residents as a source on the history of Jews of Sosnowiec)”
• Szczekociny 2010, Second Biennial National Conference for the volunteers who take care of Jewish heritage in Poland, www.jewishheritageconference.blogspot.com
• Philadelphia 2009, USA, 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, (lecture and presentation)
• Lodz 2009, Race, Religion and Representation (lecture and presentation)
• Sosnowiec 2009, Wielokulturowość Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego (lecture and presentation)
• New York 2008, USA, November 5, Congregation Mount Sinai in New York (presentation)
• Teaneck 2008, USA, November 3, Jewish Center of Teaneck in New Jersey (presentation)
• Zdunska Wola 2008, Poland (the author and the initiator of the project, organizing committee member) First Biennial National Conference for the volunteers who take care of Jewish heritage in Poland, Read it online
• Warsaw Jewish Congress 2008, Poland (lecture and presentation)
• Krakow 2007, Poland, First Conference for Young Judaists, Jews and Judaism – the Past and the Present (organizing committee member, lecture and presentation)
• Cieszyn 2003, Poland, The Town As an Area of Cultural and Ethnic Contact

SCHOLARSHIPS / GRANTS

• (2015) A research prize in the name of the late Mathilde Tagger to Dr. Kamila Klauzinska (Poland) for her 2012 doctoral dissertation “Modern Genealogy of Polish Jews”.
• (2011) The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Summer Research Laboratory
• (2008) The Rothschild Foundation
• (2007–2008) „Strategies For The Integration of Genealogical Datasets” project realized within the confines of awarded grant from The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, Israel (with Prof. Daniel H. Wagner Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and Jakub Zajdel, PhD student, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
• (2006–2010) PhD Scholarship for Academic Achievements, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (awarded annually)
• (1998–1999) Master’s Scholarship for Academic Achievements, Lodz University, Poland

THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS DATABASES

• Łódź Streets Database Read it online
• Streets in the Lodz Ghetto Read it onlineAnd Read it online
• Name index to the English translation of the Zgierz Yizkor Book Read it online
• Bełchatów Kahal Elections 1901 Read it online
• Extraction of the 1830-1840 Kutno Death Records, part of the genealogical collections at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw Read it online
• Diary of a Journey to Lodz, Auschwitz and Krakow by Howard L. Rosen (Hersz Lajb Rudek) z”l Read it online
• The 1920 Łódź Business Directory (not published yet) Read it online
• Several bilingual or trilingual glossaries (occupations, diseases).
• Research for the movie "Het grootste van het grootste - Abraham Tuschinski" Read it online